Motivational Quotes

Children

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

- Who, Dr.

Best Quotes about Children

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston